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  • Senate debate on immigration reform bill could start first week of June

    Susan Ferrechio

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    The “Gang of Eight” immigration reform bill could be up for a vote before the full Senate by the first week of June, Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday. Reid, D-Nev., vowed in a floor speech to take up the legislation, “as soon as it is ready,” even if it means interrupting work...

  • Pelosi: GOP focusing on Bengazi, AP and IRS because Obama ‘is a great president’

    Joel Gehrke

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., charged Republicans with “exploiting” the questions surrounding the Benghazi talking points, the AP phone records seizure and the IRS scandal to attack President Obama because “they fear” his agenda and eloquence. “This president — they...

  • Report: IRS denied tax-exempt status to pro-lifers on behalf of Planned Parenthood

    Joel Gehrke

    Updated: Thu, May 16, 2013

    IRS officials refused to grant tax exempt status to two pro-life organizations because of their position on the abortion issue, according to a non-profit law firm, which said that one group was pressured not to protest a pro-choice organization that endorsed President Obama during the last...

  • Krauthammer: Obama losing his constituency, the media

    Charlie Spiering

    Published: Thu, May 16, 2013

    On FOX News last night, Charles Krauthammer explained that President Obama was moving quickly to respond to the scandals in his administration to satisfy the media. “I think what he understands is that he is losing his constituency, that’s the media,” Krauthammer said, noting that...

  • Eric Holder calls IRS scrutiny of conservative groups 'outrageous'

    Susan Ferrechio

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    Attorney General Eric Holder said Internal Revenue Service employees may have committed criminal civil rights violations when they targeted conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status. Holder, in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, labeled as "outrageous" the revelations in a...

  • President Obama's allies do more damage in days than GOP did in four years

    Brian Hughes

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    In a matter of days, the Obama administration has done something that the president's political opponents have failed to do over four and a half years: inflicted serious damage to President Obama's public standing. Obama has throughout his presidency aggressively combated GOP criticism -- on...

  • IRS exec got $42k in bonuses in three years

    Mark Tapscott

    Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

    Lois Lerner, the senior executive in charge of the IRS tax exemption department and the person at the center of the exploding scandal over the IRS targeting conservative, evangelical and pro-Israel non-profits, has been given $42,531 in bonuses since 2009. That figure was included in data...

  • Tim Carney: The IRS is deeply political — and very Democratic

    Timothy P. Carney

    Published: Wed, May 15, 2013

    Federal officials used the power of the state to intimidate and harass critics of President Obama and the federal government. When the higher levels of the Internal Revenue Service learned that one office was inappropriately targeting Tea Party groups, these officials nevertheless denied it --...

  • GOP lawmakers question Kathleen Sebelius about Obamacare fundraising

    Byron York

    Updated: Wed, May 15, 2013

    Three Republican members of the House Subcommittee Health and Human Services have written a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius demanding that she reveal details of her solicitations to health care companies for donations to fund the implementation of Obamacare....